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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy in through Indira's consciousness, or you may simply say Mira was speaking through her. Whichever way you may put it, it remains a lovely message of true devotion, bhakti, of Mira's love revealing itself and evolving through her viraha-her pangs of separation. And she accepts the deepest pain as the price to
be paid for Gopal, the be-all and end-all of her life."!!7
Later on Indira Devi could reproduce some of the beautiful original tunes in which she had heard Mira sing them. A few of the tunes were quite new in style and movement. So, Roy had to take them down in notation before he could sing them correctly. According to him it was a fresh miracle that happened in 1964 because Indira Devi, when she had come to Pondicherry, could not sing at all; so it was 'a veritable landmark in the evolution of her many-mooded personality."118
Indira Devi's opening and flowering into spirituality enabled her to have visions of the future of people--their happiness or unhappiness. In all of these books, Roy has given accounts of many of such incidents which he himself had witnessed and verified. In Pilgrims of the Stars, Roy writes how Indira Devi foresaw the passing away of his loving gurudev Sri Aurobindo. Roy at that time, was in Benares and Indira Devi, in Bombay. On December 5, 1950, Roy received the news of Sri Aurobindo's demise on the radio at about 10 A. M. At noon, he received a telegram from Indira Devi sent from Bombay at 9.55 P.M. on December 4. 1950, in which she had mentioned about the terrible vision she had about Sri Aurobindo. She sought Roy's blessings in this matter. When both of them reached Pondicherry, Indira Devi showed Roy the diary in which she had recorded her visions which came true so soon:
“Bombay Dec. 2, '50. I was having a terrible pain in my body, and whenever I sat down to meditate I saw Gurudev Sri Aurobindo lying in bed. A dreadful chill in the atmosphere. Death hovering around. It was such an agony!
"Bombay Dec. 4. '50. At about midnight I saw Gurudev again lying stretched on his bed in his room at Pondicherry, when, suddenly, I saw his body rising up. I knew at once that he was leaving his body. I noticed a black mark on the back of his hand. [Later, we inquired and learned that there was, indeed, a
black scar just there, the legacy of an injection.)"19
On August 9. 1951. Dilip Roy received a thick envelope from Dewan Surindar Lal, a dear friend of theirs. Indira Devi stopped him from opening the envelope and showed him what she had recorded in her diary on August 2, 1951. She had written:
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